Abandoned Super Kmart - Round Lake Beach, IL

[@slackingpacking]

Wow! These Super K’s are starting to get rarer and rarer to find. They are tearing down the one in Medina, OH.

[@camhowe349]

Wonder if Wallie will get a video of that one i think he has filmed that one before

[@baconplayz2593]

It’s already gone… even the mini autocenter next to it is gone now.

[@baconplayz2593]

@@camhowe349 He did. I think in 2020 or 2021

[@Jaedae_4]

We don’t have any Kmarts in my area anymore 😢 I liked Kmart and definitely a huge part of my child and teenage years so very neat seeing this is! So many good stores gone smh!

[@kizzume]

As of February, there are only 11 Kmarts left in the U.S.

[@thunderray1987]

This being closed for 11 years and counting, is surprisingly in great shape still! Someone needs to buy this building and make it a Super Kmart museum. Set it up to look the way it did back in 1995 (except for the for-sale products) with the shelving and everything else. So that the public can visit and younger generations can experience K-mart in some way of what it was like 30 years ago.

[@GOCDEVANDGAMES1999]

4:08 WOW! That's a fantastic door! Great find, Wallie!😲👍

[@stephenzies8867]

And Have A Kmartlicious Day

[@AlexPlays14]

Nice video, Hi from Guanajuato, Mexico!

[@WayneSimons]

If you head a bit west check out Island Foods in Island Lake, IL. Closed last year after being open like 50 years and little changed. Still fully intact and lights on.

[@peterdoberstein8290]

The k Mart in my town of iron mountain, Michigan. Has never had anything go into it. U can fully see inside of it. Nothing covering the windows. It's been closed for over 15 years now

[@keiichi902]

Here I am at work in Sydney, Nova Scotia watching your video about a former Kmart while I am in a former Kmart that has been converted into 3 stores. ;)

[@StantonsJourneys]

Sadly the original Super K in Medina is totally gone. Thanks for sharing brother

[@alanlough638]

It was great to see you film another KMART, Wallie! The scarring of the old signage was very cool to see. The pictures of KMART at the end of the video were great. I really miss shopping at KMART. I shopped at KMART here in my hometown Weirton WV. Our KMART opened in 1974 and closed in 2017. It was great when KMART became Super KMART. Eddie Lampert should be locked up in his prison yard and fasten him tightly on the fence and electrify the fence and have a correctional officer go in and turn on the electricity 3 times a day morning, noon and night everyday and zap Eddie.

[@WayneSimons]

Your in my neighborhood! Never thought I'd see the day lol. You found a good one here. :-)

[@tyeralexander7346]

There only two Kmart open in us in Miami Florida and bridgehampton new York

[@sdrape4964]

That Kmart is in really nice shape for having been shuttered 11 years. I miss the good ol days.

[@danieljwilson7918]

Great video Wallie! Eddie Lamperts Logic, instead of destroying just one American Icon, being Kmart, let's destroy 2 American icons, the other being Sears. Eddie the Destructor!

[@JustinColeYT1]

The Portage, Indiana Meijer is a former Super Kmart. You can tell it was a Super Kmart because that store still has the Sears Auto Center, although it’s now used as storage for Meijer.

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

My old hometown. This KMart is where my family usually shopped since the old Wal Mart was a complete dump (thats where the Meijer is now IIRC). Even went to its liquidation sale.

[@DavidSquires-iy4uv]

Kmart's International Headquarters, which was located in Troy, Michigan has been Demolished. I,miss Kmart. I used to work for Kmart from 1985-1996, and the Mt.Clemens Kmart has Closed Permanently on Sunday May 8,1996 at 1:30pm on Mother's Day. 6:24

[@SoosRamirez1]

I love this style of kmart, hopefully it gets reused as something, I’m confident that it will since it’s in such good shape especially for have been sitting 11 years

[@Iggypop303]

Wow miss my Kmart I used to work at Kmart for 2 Years I was a customer service supervisor 😢 I never forget that blue light special I’m the one had to say it over the intercom lol here from Colorado. Thanks for the video 😊 and can’t wait for the next one maybe another Kmart 😊

[@AlexEigel]

Hey Loved the video. I though you're days of filming super kmarts were long gone. Also I wish you could come out here to the pacfic Northwest, there is quite a few abandoned places out here

[@maryrogal9100]

My mom used to work there before they closed when I was little not all people who are still in the area remember what it was like when it was running i remember my grandpa taking me to pick up my mom from work and me running to the deli to see her

[@highroller6678]

Love the place good place to do donuts in the winter

[@ScareFestTTV]

Hey Wallie! Cheers from New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦

[@WallieB26]

Hello in New Brunswick!!!

[@sarahvictoria2009]

We have a mall in Norridge , ILcalled the HIP, and there is an old Kmart across the way (gone but its a cool mall/area).

[@Andrewww1088]

Great video, as always!

[@WallieB26]

Thank you!

[@kimiastewart6293]

Really good job, Wallie and I love the photos that you took and your friend took (at the end) Illinois is my home state, so I enjoy seeing abandoned videos from there. Thank you for sharing 👍

[@skyebird3933]

Gees! That was a huge store. Thanks for including pics from back when it was "alive". 😥

[@Broncos2005]

Love the videos. My mom and aunt used to work at K-mart for a long time. The Kmart in Clio Michigan is a big kmart and still has all its signs up on the building. The other kmarts around me are being turned into storage places. Keep up the amazing work

[@nicolemacpherson3908]

The Sears Auto Center Garden Shop! That's what it looks like it says! Greetings from Irwin, PA!

[@jayreed9977]

Jon and Kate +8..😂😂😂😂 Love ya brotha, always enjoy your work..

[@jerrysanders9101]

lol what? Did I miss a job and Kate plus 8 appearance? 😂

[@MichaelHaugen-qb6cb]

I remember going there along in the 90's with my mom

[@robertmailhos8159]

My favorite part of Kmart was the riding mower selection miss those k gro riding mowers

[@MrIceman22]

this kmart is like my in port huron mi one you do. thanks for sharing this wallie :D

[@terriwoodard7399]

I love you saying the Eddie prison yard!!! That place is a gem after 11 years.

[@Urban_nation.]

Oh I’m a speechless right now. Nice video wallie thank you

[@cheryls3162]

I miss the Super K-Mart in Warren Ohio sooo much. I remember the grand opening! Their merchandise was great when they first opened. I could spend a lot of time at that store. It was cool they were open 24 hours and believe me I would visit at all hours.😊

[@mikeredd525]

Love the K-Mart videos, worked at the one in my hometown. Thanks Wallie, Take care!

[@jaimienichols5649]

Awesome Wall

[@tiofelix2006]

Don't know if you know this but there was a Kmart in Waukegan that closed around the same time this location closed. That location is now a catholic school. Just thought it was interesting to share!

[@user-ci9ri4fl5pBuckeyeChessie]

Wallie, there is an abandon Big K mart off of I-75 exit 131 in Michigan, with all the signs still on the building and a high sign for I-75, and a sign still on the plaza sign at the street.

[@jamiegrainger8838]

omfg this is the earliest ive been, i love ur videos so much and its so cool to see "old fashioned" stores and restaurants that havent been remodeled to that ugly shoebox design. not enough ppl document them and im so glad u do :)

[@Optopolis]

It's always weird to me how those lights almost appear green. If I remember right, I captured a clip of the Thornton CO super K where the lights came out greenish.... ANNNNd the little caesars was papered just like that... but even worse, I had to reach up really high to have a glimpse inside.

[@mr.fixit2181]

Those bulbs turn green when there starting to go bad the old bulbs have a starter

[@Optopolis]

@@mr.fixit2181 Ah okay. Learn something new every day. I don't think I've hardly touched lights like those. I'm more familiar with the LEDs and Incandescent house lights haha

[@lukehazelbaker5897]

Man, I miss Kmart, I often went there as a Youngin myself, thank you for doing all these videos, as it also kind of brings me back to my childhood. Another store that I missed from my childhood is called marsh supermarket, I don’t know all of the locations they were at, but locally to me in Indiana We had quite a few and I remember my mom working at a marsh supermarket and I would always go there and get free cookies lol. As always, I love your videos, I cannot wait to see what else you have in store, keep up the great content.🤘🤘. Ohhh also you should link back up with Nate and do exploration somewhere,I think that would be really cool as I also miss seeing him in some of your videos. As always be safe🤘🤘🤘

[@kentworch]

I had the few kmarts disappear in my area, but they didn't stay abandoned for long before something else took the buildings. Planet fitness and Publix bought out the old Winn Dixie stores in the area. The longest abandoned Kmart was in North Charleston near the Northwoods Mall across from the Texas Roadhouse where the "Rice Bowl" car meet used to happen back in the day right off of Rivers Ave., but was too risky to explore due to heavy police presence.

[@edwardsr70]

IMO If Kmart had capitalized on Kmart Supercenters instead of the Big Kmart stores in the 90s when Walmart was having a massive supercenter expansion, maybe Kmart would still be around closely competing with Walmart today but they didnt they focused too much on the Big Kmart expansion and not enough on the supercenter expansion in the 90s and I think that was a big cause of the initial downfall of Kmart.

[@carloso5910official]

Hot take: Super Kmart (Center) is a better concept than Big Kmart

[@astrojohnny70]

This is the K Mart my family shopped right up till it closed. Also there was a Sears Hardware and Appliance standalone store in front before they both merged. now i think its a Harbor Freight Tools. another fun video would be the abandon Regal Cinemas theater next door

[@jerrysanders9101]

Cheers, cool 🆒 video 🎉as usual Wally 🎬🎥

[@ElizabethRodriguez-lj7ys]

I loved Kmart shopped there all the time 😢

[@dopethecretin224]

I moved to RLB when I was a kid from Chicago and this was the first supermarket we would go to in the area and I loved coming here. Unfortunately as years went by RLB has been stricken w crime, gang violence, and drugs and many businesses began closing down throughout the area. RLB is sad asf nowadays

[@historyadventureswithcandi3497]

I watched your video on the vacant Super Kmart in Port Huron, Michigan on KZbin. The aerial shots were fabulous, and as usual the content was awesome. After watching that video I was curious if you're aware of the original Kmart nearby that the Super Kmart replaced. It's maybe 1/2 mile or so from former the Super Kmart that you visited. A brief background - it was one of the earlier Kmarts built not too long after Garden City. I believe it opened in September, 1962. For your reference, the configuration is identical to the abandoned Kmart that Bright Sun Films investigated in one of their videos. It contained a Kmart as well as Kmart Foods (which later became a Great Scott! and then a locally owned grocer and then was vacant for several yeas). While I was away in the military the store underwent an overhaul in the very early 1990's. The store was expanded but never became a "Big K" as it was closed in favor of the new Super K Center when it opened. Currently the exterior is definitely identifiable as a former Kmart. The complex is now occupied by a Big Lots, a Save-A-Lot, a Family Dollar, and a Blood Plasma Donation outfit. The Big Lots interior made use of nearly the entire Kmart Expansion with very little modification, Save-A-Lot's interior recycled much of the original Kmart and is still recognizable, the Family Dollar was modified so not so much of Kmart remains in there, there is a gutted section of the original Kmart (see photo) and the Plasma place is extensively modified. The cross street of the original Kmart is 24th Street & Howard St. Port Huron Michigan 48060.

[@ZachArmstrong02]

Back when stores where open 24 hours a day

[@dewaynesmith6620]

I miss super kmart center as well they were all over

[@lindamikel1842]

Nice old Big Kmart

[@genericlc]

Cool, I’m pretty close to this abandoned Super Kmart

[@lisafreeman4222]

Awesome video nice picture s

[@tuckerhuff692]

The Kmart king

[@timothycosgrove1385]

Such a great building and in good shape.... how can it be empty for so long

[@redrayman1977]

Hi my friend and welcome to Illinois my home State and great video may be you can stop by Peoria Illinois

[@scottallbritton5911]

I use to shop here with my Mom and Dad Step Dad my Brother and my Grandparents

[@metalslug991]

What is the name of the song at the end

[@justinbennink3926]

seems it easy for buildings in the USA to be abandond, here in the netherlands empty buildings are rare. and most building get reused quickly again.

[@markbajek2541]

There's a dead Kmart on the north side of Fostoria, Ohio sorta on your way back home.

[@benjaminmendenhall4497]

Where i live the Home Depot was a Kmart and it’s looks like it had a k cafe in it too it’s in Champaign IL and there’s a picture of one online and it just looks like the one you posted on here on KZbin

[@vcvcf1896]

I remember eating with my mom in that K Cafe. I was really little and i don't think was sister was born yet, so it had to be 2005-06.

[@Mrcruisefever1]

It was stupid of them making Eddie as a CEO of the company.

[@alanlough638]

Read my comment about what I said tying Eddie to the chain link fence inside his prison yard and giving him shock treatments.

[@goldtvlive1017]

During every October they open up a part of the abandoned store for a spirit halloween shop.

[@Iahdbuxuhn]

i could of seen you there!

[@lisadungan9276]

I really miss Kmart! Really enjoyed shopping there. Wish they were still around. Thanks Fast Eddie🤬

[@kellymoorman9818]

I really miss Kmart

[@huricainrip5630]

If your in New York there is a Kmart in Lakewood that got converted to a target 🎯 you should check it out

[@christinamurray6546]

You should do the abandoned babies r. Us in Burbank il

[@michaelhenkins1182]

I would love to meet you wallie i live in a small town called spring valley Illinois and there is an abandoned marathon gas station about 3 blocks from me

[@roguefamily7630]

I used to shop there

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

Wallie, when you say “well, well, well”…. This must be done in your best Borat accent! 😂😂😂

[@emiliomaese6207]

what is the name of the song at the end of this video

[@RyGuy0520]

There's basically nothing left of the 1st super kmart in medina ohio I was up there the other day it was just unbelievable how it's gone

[@Nikoexpoloring]

Wow! Nice, good video this Kmart is actually near me I honestly just hope it doesn't end up like the reagal cinema that closed something about a year ago. It recently got caught on fire by someone who was doing arson so I hope this Kmart won't go up in flames although I'm sure the round lake police will be watching abandoned buildings a little bit more ever since the incident of the regal theater

[@reneerogal6726]

I actually worked there, in the deli.

[@bluckfox]

will like to see a Kmart store in au ? WallieB26 great video brother keep up the great work

[@bobbywong9392]

Hi Wallie, I seen your video of your Kmart items over the years. I was curious on how to send an item (to you) I found from 2000, I kept the shirt but the bag and receipt are in ridiculously good condition. To add to your collection.

[@minnesotaoutdoorwarningsirens]

nice! we didnt have any in my home state which i find weird

[@jakesawesomevids7908]

That’s near me I’m going there yayyy :)

[@sb90nykmtz]

There’s a abandoned super Kmart in Carson City NV that’s been sitting there since 2003

[@JosephDirosario]

It really sad mostly gone

[@carloso5910official]

Hot take: Super Kmart (Center) is a better concept than Big Kmart

[@cutemimi25]

And both are better than just normal Kmart

[@NSGames622]

Something interesting to note, in 2021, this building was used as a vaccination center.

[@elizabethorsillo7187]

As much as I miss the Warren Kmart, Meijer is definitely a great replacement!

[@jeffthompson4911]

I miss Kmart...........They were the first place I shipped my pants

[@jet34thehawk]

Wow old big K👌

[@ChrisW2024]

if u ever come to new zealand u can shop at kmart

[@GregoryJGarrett]

Regal Round Lake Beach is down the way.

[@Theaudiocounsel]

Great Vid!! Cool Hoodie K-M-A-R-T SUCKS! 😂

[@haydenlaisdell8926]

This could of been the Biggest Super Kmart in the Chain. It closed in December 2013.

[@gablings]

This one was around 190K sqft, so it was one of the largest ones. However, there is a decent handful of stores that were bigger by a few thousand sqft such as Lorain, OH, Homewood, IL and Lincoln Park, MI. There's also some talk that the Euclid, OH supercenter was the largest in the chain (around 200k sqft), however some sources say 200k while others around 190k.

[@carloso5910official]

@@gablingsThe Euclid, Ohio Super Kmart used to be a Twin-Valu location

[@DieselKevcop]

This store has been rented by Spirit Halloween a few times.

[@KingGrayson3949]

Did you ever get sick from the hush puppys😂😂

[@gradymcclintock6160]

Wonder who the hell is paying the electric bill

[@adampruitt9211]

Whoever it is it's a HUGE! waste of money!! 💰

[@Ham_Ramen]

Yo I live like 5-10 mins away from that place 😭😭 I pass it all the time

[@briansheridan3305]

Anyone know who sung this song?

[@adampruitt9211]

Not sure but it sounds like a 80's or early 90's song

[@benjaminvlz]

The track is a vaporwave edit of "Foo-Foo" by Waterfront Dining, made by KZbinr GrizzlyRed, which itself is a vaporwave edit of the song, "Say You'll Be Mine" by a Canadian girl group called West End Girls, which in turn, contains an interpolated sample of "Rock Wit'cha" by Bobby Brown. I know, pretty confusing. lol Waterfront Dining - "Foo-Foo" (Vaporwave Edit) - GrizzlyRed watch?v=PINnzx5NCu4&pp=ygUbV2F0ZXJmcm9udCBEaW5pbmcgLSBGb28tRm9v Waterfront Dining - "Foo-Foo" (Original) watch?v=2HUrKV__nCo&t=234s West End Girls - "Say You'll Be Mine" watch?v=yympsLlqiow Bobby Brown - "Rock Wit'cha" watch?v=gLdX4soAyTQ

[@98yearoldRefrigerator]

@@benjaminvlzthank you!

[@philipcastaneda1681]

Well i guess online shopping ended the glory days of Kmart.

[@Nathaly-s4o]

¡Bro he find our abonded kmart when I was a baby bro and I live here bro!